I design systems, stories, and platforms that connect people to culture. I help ambitious brands figure out how their ideas should look, sound, move, and behave.


Formerly, Design Director of the boutique home and lifestyle trade-show Shoppe Object, and Senior Designer & Strategist at design studio Aesthetic Movement.









IMPRESSIONS: Aesop Case Study

Creative Technology / Retail Experience 
A receipt records the sale and forgets the visit. This one remembers: a one-of-one print, pressed at the counter, that turns the data of a single moment into something worth keeping.







SHOPPE OBJECT
World-building / Design / Strategy 
A design fair that became a platform, then a marketplace, then a small media universe. 100 → 500+ brands · 400+ partners · acquired by International Market Centers, 2022














SO: Shoppe High Point Market
Print Editorial / Digital Marketing / Signage 
The real test of an offshoot identity is whether it survives scale. This one had to hold at mobile, postcard, and building size.







ALEX ASHE
Digital / Website Design & Build 
Making a home for a filmmaker's films without getting in the way of the films.













PROTOCOL-01

Experimental Design / Creative Technology 
What happens when a social rule gets a body? A protocol that makes the unspoken etiquette of a meeting, its time and patience and turn-taking, into something you can see and hold.









THE AFFECTIVE INDEX
Research / Typography 
Can a feeling be set in type? Ongoing research that gives internal states a grammar of color, form, and constraint.









GUADALUPE MARAVILLA

Sound / Performance / Community Offering 
Sound meditation ceremonies activating Maravilla's sculptural instruments as a communal experience.




Shoppe Object, Summer ‘19
Show Brochure / Print & Digital Multi-Channel Marketing Campaigns









AESTHETIC MOVEMENT

Brand Systems / Digital / Campaign 
You learn a studio by doing everything in it. Years of brand, campaign, print, and show design across a multi-brand studio, from junior designer to senior designer and strategist.







INSURANCE EDITIONS
Editorial / Book Design 
Book design for an independent poetry press, two titles carried from manuscript to finished object.











GRAPHIC IMAGE
Print / Product Design / Illustration 
Art Deco was made to be looked at; this asks to be held. A leather goods line built from Deco geometry in foil, embossing, and debossing.




CLEANER
Choreography 
Most work is already choreography, we just don't call it that. Movement direction for Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's film on labor, technology, and the routines of the workday.










PRESSROOM
Creative Technology / Systems Design
One press, many minds: a generative system whose "brand grammar" is swappable, so the same engine notices, composes, and remembers differently for each house. Four live grammars: the apothecary, the ritual, the lab, the farm.





AESTHETIC MOVEMENT  
Email Marketing / Newsletter Design
The inbox is the hardest room to design for. Email and newsletter design for a roster of 40+ brands: launches, seasonal sends, and sales notes built to be opened.











THE FLORAL SOCIETY
Graphic Design / Photo-Retouching
Photographic blooms built for The Floral Society's seed packaging, entirely through retouching and image manipulation.




JULIA’S
Creative Direction / Interior & Digital Design
Restoring a historic building in Isabela as a guest house, cultural space and community project.











IMMODEST COTTON
Product Mockups / Graphic Design / Art Direction
Building the look of the Immodest Cotton handbags line from product mockups out.

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SIR | MADAM
Art Direction / Lookbook Catalog
Heritage handled lightly. Art direction and catalog design for a homeware launch that treats classic motifs as something to play with and preserve.






MAYBELLINE
Choreography / Movement Direction
Movement direction for Maybelline New York, turning a product unboxing into choreography.